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Journal of Urban Health

Issue 1/2005

Content (17 Articles)

Editorials and Commentaries

The urban health “advantage”

D. Vlahov, S. Galea, N. Freudenberg

Special Feature: Mass Transit

Health and safety hazards associated with subways: A review

R. R. M. Gershon, K. A. Qureshi, M. A. Barrera, M. J. Erwin, F. Goldsmith

Steel dust in the New York City subway system as a source of manganese, chromium, and iron exposures for transit workers

Steven N. Chillrud, David Grass, James M. Ross, Drissa Coulibaly, Vesna Slavkovich, David Epstein, Sonja N. Sax, Dee Pederson, David Johnson, John D. Spengler, Patrick L. Kinney, H. James Simpson, Paul Brandt-Rauf

Alcohol, stress-related factors, and short-term absenteeism among urban transit operators

Carol B. Cunradi, Birgit A. Greiner, David R. Ragland, June Fisher

Original Articles: Various Topic

Smoking practices in New York City: The use of a population-based survey to guide policy-making and programming

Farzad Mostashari, Bonnie D. Kerker, Anjum Hajat, Nancy Miller, Thomas R. Frieden

Use of medical counseling for the prevention and control of smoking in the municipality of old Havana

Patricia Varona, Mariano Bonet, Niurys Fernandez, Mayile Canizares, René García Roche, Anna Maria Ibarra, Andreas Wielgosz

Asthma in medicaid managed care enrollees residing in New York City: Results from a post-world trade center disaster survey

Victoria L. Wagner, Marleen S. Radigan, Patrick J. Roohan, Joseph P. Anarella, Foster C. Gesten

Metropolitan income inequality and working-age mortality: A cross-sectional analysis using comparable data from five countries

Nancy A. Ross, Danny Dorling, James R. Dunn, Göran Henriksson, John Glover, John Lynch, Gunilla Ringbäck Weitoft

Cash benefits are associated with lower risk behavior among the homeless and marginally housed in San Francisco

Elise D. Riley, Andrew R. Moss, Richard A. Clark, Sandra L. Monk, David R. Bangsberg

Adherence to hepatitis B virus vaccination at syringe exchange sites

Frederick L. Altice, Robert D. Bruce, Mary R. Walton, Marta I. Buitrago